years, reverting to fortnightly in the last year of production. The collected editions were published in 9 volumes in 1947. Hammerton later edited a biography of J. M. Barrie and studies of Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson. He also wrote Other Things than War: Musings and Memories (1943), and an autobiography, Books and Myself (1944). He edited Punch Library of Humour, a book series of volumes of selected Punch Magazine sketches, described as "cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of the comic draughtsmanship and leading wits of the age to 'Punch'". Mee died in 1943. In 1946, Hammerton wrote a biography of him entitled Child of Wonder. List of works ; . Peoples of All Nations : Their Life Today and Story of Their Past (Photojournalist Account and Commentary Early Twentieth Century Anthropology - origins circa 1920) The World's Greatest Books (1910) with Mee. The War Illustrated (Hammerton, ed.). References Further reading Dictionary of National Biography. On his contributions to the Children's Encyclopædia, see The World of the Edwardian Child, as seen in Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopædia, 1908-1910 by Michael Tracy (2008) External links Oxford DNB entry (subscription required; free access for holders of a valid UK Library ticket) 1871 births 1949 deaths Knights Bachelor British encyclopedists